Timeline for Can an email trace be maliciously removed by an admin on a default Outlook setup?
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| Dec 3, 2023 at 8:37 | comment | added | schroeder♦ | Short answer: no. The M365 admin is just a customer. M365 will have its own logs of emails that it will maintain independently of whatever a customer can do. So, your question becomes: can the M365 domain admin purge logs in such a way that they themselves can't recover the logs. And that will be more of a M365 question than a security question. | |
| Dec 3, 2023 at 1:15 | comment | added | Elizabeth Vogue | @schroeder Well let's imagine a business using it's own domain based on microsofts server, with a Microsoft 365 set up. An email was sent to one of the staff in the past 90 days. You are the admin. Are you able to delete this email and it's traces such that running a 'message trace' for the past 90 days won't show anything? | |
| Dec 2, 2023 at 15:39 | comment | added | schroeder♦ | @LukeSawczak if they mean the latter then the answer below is wrong - that's why I'm asking for clarification | |
| Dec 2, 2023 at 13:05 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | One thing an admin can never do is remove local copies of email (if you own the device running the client) or delete copies forwarded outside the domain — i.e., into another system, as Serge said. Of course such emails can be fabricated, so they're not an airtight proof the email was sent. But if a non-tech-savvy person presented them as evidence of some communication, it might be reasonable to think it happened after verifying the headers and so forth. | |
| Dec 2, 2023 at 13:00 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | @schroeder I'm pretty sure OP means the latter. | |
| Dec 2, 2023 at 10:26 | comment | added | schroeder♦ | Are you talking about Microsoft admins or the admins of a business account that uses Microsoft 365? | |
| Dec 2, 2023 at 10:23 | history | edited | schroeder♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Dec 2, 2023 at 2:04 | history | asked | Elizabeth Vogue | CC BY-SA 4.0 |